Chapter 25 Dragon and Tiger Forging Jade Paste
There are many creatures in the mangrove tidal flats, not only fish and crabs, but also some other creatures.
When Cai Hongming came to it, he saw large and small hairy crabs lying on the tidal flats under the mangrove forest, spitting bubbles. When these things saw people coming, they ran into their holes, and for a moment the chickens flew and the dogs jumped.
The island is far from people, so no one comes here to catch hairy crabs. This gives the hairy crabs on the island a space to thrive, and from generation to generation, the number of hairy crabs here is very considerable, and the size is also very large, only fat. Cai Hongming picked some relatively large ones to go back. Later, he took a plastic bucket from where his uncle put his things and looked for a red wolf-toothed goby in the mangrove forest. When he was looking for it, he saw big mudskippers jumping around on the tidal flats, so he caught some of them.
Although mudskippers are relatively small and have no meat, they are better than delicious.
I don't know what's going on, wild things are often better than domesticated ones. For example, chickens have a different taste from those raised on feed. Free-range chickens are tougher and have harder bones than fed chickens. The same goes for fish, most of the fish raised in the pond have an earthy smell and even some of the smell of feeding. You may not feel it when you eat it when it's just cooked, but when it's cold, you can't eat it at all.
grabbed a bunch of scattered things, Cai Hongming was already a bumper harvest even if he didn't fish. However, the old anglers who come to the island are also very rewarding.
This is a sea area rich in fish resources, and with the methods of their old anglers, it is difficult to catch fish. Sometimes if you are lucky enough to encounter a school of fish, it will be even more rewarding.
With these harvests, when the sky was full of red glow, a group of people took a cruise ship and left on the sunset. The pink manta rays playing below also floated up and flew up for a while, saying goodbye.
In the evening, Cai Hongming made another delicious meal, and some of the remaining seafood was brought back by his friend Cai Zhengxian to eat. After eating and resting for a while, he did not go to the hot springs with Cai Zhengxian, but bypassed Zhenwei Village and came to the rocky beach behind the village.
At this time, the tide rose, and all the boulders that had been standing in the sea were submerged by the sea, and only a few relatively tall stone pillars emerged from the water.
Cai Hongming took a look, then took off his clothes and walked into the sea.
Slowly walk into the water until you submerge overhead. Only then did he realize that his idea of practicing in the sea seemed too simple, and he had forgotten the buoyancy of the sea. As soon as he entered the water, he felt his body rise involuntarily. How can you practice martial arts like this? Suddenly, he had an idea, ran ashore, and found two large stones to tie to his feet, so that he could barely stand in the middle of the sea.
He walked slowly and came to the rocks that had been submerged in the sea.
At this moment, the surging tide rushed straight towards him after several entanglements among the rocks. Caught off guard, his body was unstable, and he was rushed back again and again. He had to move back a little so that he wouldn't be swept away by the dark waves that swirled between the rocks.
It seems that the bottom of the sea is indeed a good place to practice flying crane boxing, especially on this rocky beach.
The rocky beach is hit by the undulating tide, and the huge water force brought by the undercurrent of the waves below is just enough to be used for physical training.
In the past few years, I have been too lazy, and my practice is three days of fishing, two days of drying nets, and my body skin and flesh are relaxed. This time I exercised with seawater, and I should be able to practice it again, after all, my foundation is still there. Thinking about it, Cai Hongming began to practice Takeoff Crane Boxing in the sea.
The punch is closed, the fist rises and falls, bringing up waves and waves, which is very testing.
At first, Cai Hongming was not used to it, but after a while, he slowly got used to it, and his boxing skills gradually became proficient from the original rigidity.
After one night, he practiced arm weakness and back pain, went back to take a shower, and was so tired that he didn't want to get up when he lay in bed. However, he knew that it was not the time to rest, so he took out the black jade gourd from the cave heaven blessed land in the jade ding, drank some water jade toad liquid, sat cross-legged on the bed, and began to cultivate the ancient guidance technique fetal breath meridian.
There was nothing to say all night, and when he woke up again, Cai Hongming only felt energetic, and the fatigue caused by the practice last night was swept away, but the bones in his body were still sore.
It seems that it is not so easy to practice a good skill.
Cai Hongming sighed and got off the bed, dressed and washed, and was about to go to dinner, but suddenly remembered the book his grandfather gave him. He hadn't read those books much since he got them back, but he remembered that when he read them in his grandfather's house, he seemed to see a book with a prescription for treating muscle and bone soreness caused by martial arts practice.
Thinking about it, he hurriedly took out the books that his grandfather gave him that recorded the anointing recipe and read it.
Sure enough, there is a paste recipe called "Dragon and Tiger Forging Jade Paste" in the book. This ointment is a plaster based on dragon and tiger bones, supplemented by other medicinal materials. According to the book, this plaster can also be turned into a bath decoction to wash the body, but the amount of medicine used is a bit too much, so Cai Hongming will not consider it.
If he had used the decoction in the book, even if his family had a collection of these medicines, he might not be able to use them several times.
After reading the ointment, Cai Hongming recorded all the medicinal materials in his heart, and then went out to eat.
After eating, he took a small portion of the medicinal materials of Dragon Tiger Forging Jade Paste from the pharmacy and crushed it, mixed it with his own keel powder, and found a small red clay stove and casserole, ready to boil the plaster in the backyard.
He didn't know how effective the plaster was in the book, so he took a small portion and tried the effect.
Dragon Tiger Forging Jade Paste is an ointment, and the boiling method is more cumbersome than the last refining of keel sores ointment. First of all, the crushed herbs should be soaked in lard for half a day. After the medicinal materials are soaked in lard, the medicinal materials can be put on the stove fire and boiled over a slight fire, and after boiling to a certain extent, the medicinal materials should be scooped up and cooled, and then put down to boil. This is repeated three times, and after all the medicinal properties of the medicinal materials have been fried and boiled out, the residue is filtered, and after the plaster is cooled, the plaster is made.
Dragon Tiger Forging Jade Paste is very cool to apply, but if it is combined with the heat of the skin, it will become hot. This heat penetrates into the bones, and you will feel a burst of itching.
Cai Hongming applied a little bit on his hands, and he felt itchy, this kind of itching, itching into the bones and flesh, but it was still in a tolerable range.
It's also strange that after the itch passed, he actually felt that the soreness in his body had decreased. At this time, Cai Hongming had to sigh at the miracle of the plaster left by his ancestors.
Seeing that the plaster was so effective, he went to get a large portion of the medicinal herbs and crushed it, then added keel powder, and continued to boil the plaster in the room at home that specializes in refining plasters.